Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Italy's course at Venice. At that time Air Minister Italo Balbo established the speed school at Lake Garda, put Col. Bernasconi in command. The following year Italy upped the world record to 318 m. p. h., soon lost it again to Britain. Italy's efforts to regain the record took a frightful toll. She had pinned her hopes on a Macchi seaplane with a 2,800-h. p. Fiat motor driving two propellers. One after another these machines dove into Lake Garda, carrying to death in turn the crack pilots of the high speed school-Monti, Bellini...
...community think in terms of improving the management of banks rather than of restoring social equilibrium, the loss of which accounts for most bank failures. When the farm problem becomes a major catastrophe, business either ignores the plight of one-third of our nation, or actively opposes efforts to regain balance. It makes little effort to design better plans. Political leaders bent on making good laws receive specialized advice related to individual problems of the adviser...
...Spore Bush explains that she picks up a brush, starts in one corner of a large canvas "without the slightest idea what is going to happen." In her studio for the last few weeks have gathered regularly her husband's henchmen to talk strategy for his campaign to regain control of Bush Terminal Co., the vast freight-handling and industrial development which Irving Bush spent 30 years building along the South Brooklyn waterfront...
...only nearer to New York, the fashion center of the East, but also have had no supposedly humorous publicity campaigns to emphasize the acme of vulgarity in their respective institutions. But the local Bearers of the Braces all agree that Harvard men need only one thing to regain their lost leadership in collegiate styles, and that is the courage to wear the latest fashions when they first come...
...holding out a tempting offer of colonies which Italy never received for her part in the World War, and that 11 Duce has been industriously hating France since he came to power. England's interests in curtailing the French are plain enough. For one thing, London would like to regain its historic role as arbiter of Europe through a position as they key factor in the balance of power. Moreover, she is noticeably worried over the size of the French air force...